Mitchell-Nunatak
| Mitchell-Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Manning Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mitchell nunatak is a nunatak found on the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . He is the middle three nunatakker in the northern part of the Manning Nunatakker . It is located between Kenneth Ridge in the north and Tester Nunatak in the south.
Aerial photographs of this and the neighboring Nunatakker were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and in 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). Participants of a Soviet Antarctic expedition visited them in 1965. The same applies to an ANARE team in 1969 whose actual target area was the Prince Charles Mountains . The Nunatak described here is named after Raymond John Mitchell (* 1930), a member of this team and a diesel generator mechanic at Mawson Station in the same year.
Web links
- Mitchell Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mitchell-Nunatak on geographic.org (English)